The Scoop 6….

3 winners and 3 seconds is what we ended up with. Close but no cigar.

The 3 winners were down to Gary’s very confident pick, Parisien Pyramid (more about that later), Balducci who was a trends horse plus blog readers most popular and Hamish McGonagall who was picked by all of us as a fairly strong fancy. 

Of the ones that let us down, Final Victory and Kingsgate Native were considered but I have to be honest and say that I wouldn’t have gone with Tactic over at York unless I was able to choose the whole field. Munsef was my strongest fancy from the six races and I just can’t believe that Tactic beat him by 14 lengths. Where did the winner find that kind of improvement from his last 4runs? We’ll probably never know.

We did however manage to get the Place Dividend up twice which gave us a return of £87 and therefore a payout of 45p per share.

What I propose to do, if this is agreeable to everyone, is offer every syndicate member the opportunity to reclaim their 45p share by sending me a Paypal request before Friday morning. After this time, all money that is left in the pot after any share payouts will be used to buy Lucky Dip Tickets for Saturday’s Lottery Draw with any winnings split equally between all syndicate members who have not reclaimed their share.

I will post all the lottery numbers on the Blog before the draw numbers are announced.

If anyone doesn’t want their share to be used in this way please reclaim your money before Noon Friday 28th May.

Thank-you everyone for getting involved and I’m just sorry that we couldn’t get the result we all wanted. I hope you managed to get some fun out of it, especially after the first two had gone in, and maybe we’ll do it again once the fund starts building back up.

Kingsgate Native

A couple of interesting points came about from the Scoop on Saturday. Firstly, if we had permed every horse that readers submitted in their scoop suggestions, apart from having to lay out over £150,000 to put the bet on, we would have had nothing to show for it. Quite incredibly there wasn’t a single reader who suggested doing Kingsgate Native in the Temple Stakes. I’m glad I wasn’t alone in thinking he was the weakest of the front 4 in the betting.

Secondly, in two of the races (2.15 & 2.45 Goodwood ) every horse was chosen by at least one reader which I think goes to show how tight the Scoop races were on Saturday. The fact that they went only 12/1 the outsider in the 9 runner field of the 2.15 Goodwood says it all.

Beyond Desire

I’ve been harping on about this filly since September last year after she got stitched up and turned over when my biggest single bet of 2009. I lost a few more quid backing her for the 1000 Guineas when she didn’t run but judging by her comeback appearance at the weekend  it won’t be long until I get my money back. I had a decent bet on her on Saturday at 5/4, which went some way to repairing the damage, and would imagine she’ll be able to run up a sequence in sprints this Summer hopefully culminating in success in one of the big Group 1 races. Preferably the July Stakes as I’ve got £25ew at 50/1 on her.

Weekend Golf…

Great weather, great company, er, truly shocking golf. Thanks to some poor strokes, dodgy putting and some creative accounting by the scorer I managed to finish last of four. I’m beginning to think Paula (comments) had it right and I’ve now retired my golf clubs. I’d rather have a hundred bad beats on the poker table than suffer another 18 holes like those I had on Saturday. Apparently a bad round of golf is better than a good day in the office but whoever said that obviously didn’t have their office in a poker room or the betting shop.

Gary…

What can I say? The guy is in the form of his life and has been tipping out of his skin for over 2 months now.

Since he’s started putting up his selections on this blog he is an incredible 150 points up on both his selections and his system. Even more incredible when you consider that’s just since 18th April. If there’s a tipster in the country who can boast, and prove, those kind of profit figures I’d be very surprised and would gladly plug him on this blog.

For those who doubted the validity of his claims that Parisian Pyramid was a top priced 8/1, you were indeed correct…….. 8/1 was not the top price available on Saturday. It was in fact 10/1 and it was freely available at this price. Plenty of you have commented or emailed to say that you were on at the 10’s, I know we were. Gary gave it as a 4pt win on his selection page and followed that up with 2pts on his system page. At 10/1 this would actually have given him another 12 points profit to his already highly impressive profit figures. When news came through to us of his win the amount of whooping and jumping around we did on the golf course wouldn’t have looked out of place had any of us scored a hole in one. I’d blame my poor round on all that excitement but I’d been playing badly long before the result was in. Must have been the sun….

To all of you who are feeling guilty about getting all these winners for free then there will be an opportunity shortly to show your appreciation. Gary will be doing a special tipping guide for Royal Ascot which will give an indepth analysis of all 30 races and his selections for each race. It will be just £19.95 for the entire meeting. Check it out here…… http://www.horseraceoutsiders.co.uk/

For those of you not feeling guilty in the slightest about getting all these winners for free then don’t worry. We are delighted to say that all the system horses and tips will continue to be absolutely free of charge. Today’s horses are uploaded and I can pass on the information that he is very keen on Seneschal in the first at Leicester and you should take the 12’s at Betfred….

Good luck,
Gavin.

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